Recent content by George M

I, for one, am not integrating them. Everything pertaining to the media room is on CQC only with its won tablet. Everything else, Zwave, Zigbee, Elk, Universal Devices, MQTT, etc is on HA. Both CQC and HA run natively on Dell micro computers so not too much electrical usage - Although electric...

Still using CQC (for 19 years now) for my media room. Everything else is HA driven since 2024. Can't get some devices for the media room to operate in HA, nor can I get the same look as the family is used to. In my opinion, dashboards were easier in CQC.

If you have Home Assistant, here are a couple other voice projects may be of interest. Both have very active discord channels and wonderful customer service. In my opinion, both are better than the PE, especially if you are a tinkerer. https://github.com/dinki/View-Assist...

I was in your place a couple of years ago. Had CQC for about 15 years. Loved it! But had to move on because of no new hardware being worked on. I do hope Dean is doing well though. HA will handle anything you can throw at it, either internally or with community programs or add ons. Currently I...

For me - both Alexa and Siri are a no go. Never used them and never will. Wont have them in my house (at least Alexa since I don't have any apple products I wouldn't have Siri any way). I do find voice control somewhat intriguing now, but it must be local for me to use it.

Hey Pete. If you are interested in this stuff I suggest you check out the Sat1. I've read that the PE is lacking in many ways. This guy has been working with voice assist for quite a while and last fall started a company. I have one on order that is supposed to arrive this month. A very active...

I did Pete. I got it reset but I haven't put it into service yet (so of course I forgot how I connect to it now). I need to rebuild some shelves to accommodate it. I'll probably be back looking for advice again when i put it into service.

It was all my router and the VPN. With other computers they are added to the default VPN site automatically. But with the Linux ones, for some reason. I have to go in and manually add them to the VPN site. Once I do that then all is well.

I think I found out what is going on. I have my router set up to use NordVPN. When I turned off the VPN i was able to connect to the internet. That is a work around, but how do I get the linux machine to work through the VPN?

Hi Pete, good to talk to you again. When I installed i could not update via internet because I never could get a connection. Ping doesn't work because, again, it doesn't go anywhere. What is strange is that if I ping www.google.com I get this: PING www.google.com (192.0.0.88) 56(84) bytes of...

I found a need for a second linux computer. I have a couple of Lenovo ThinkCenter mini computers and an old pc that hasnt been used for a few years. I started with one of the mini's and installed the latest Ubuntu. It connects to the Lan just fine but will not connect to the internet - either...

Hello everyone. I remember that some of you on here are network "experts" and I know just enough to get me in trouble. I just bought a cisco 3750 switch off of ebay. I have reset it many times to try to get my password to be active. Right after I reset it I can go in and change everything on the...

Thank you Ral, The error of the low battery has gone away. However I still have an error of "serial expander trouble". I have the serial expander with the firmware for the zwave controller. Since I started to move some of the zwave switches to a different controller (home assistant) I am now...

I have an Elk M1 system. Been in operation since 2008. Recently I keep getting a "low battery" warning. I replace the backup battery, and the only other battery item in the system is a door lock. Replaced those batteries also. Still get the warning. What else would cause the warning? Is there a...

My zwave is still going strong after 16 years. In the process of converting them from ELK M1 control to Home Assistant.